On a warm July evening we had the pleasure of 5 yes FIVE guests in the Library
including KD and JH from the Colchester and Bury St Edmunds clubs.
Our Chair SR used the theme of Wimbledon for fill in material- but without using the ‘T’word!
Introductions were to the question: ‘What Nuggets of Joy have you had recently?’
For our inspiration, JW read a poem called ‘Time Goes By’
Ah Counter – JR, Timer – CAW
Wordmaster – CLW with the word ‘plumb’
The prepared speeches were as follows:
LG with ‘A Match made in Football’ evaluated by KD
JH with ‘A Magic School’ evaluated by CLW
Our Two Minute Topics master JR asked members to pick a subject from her titfer (hat)
with various topical subjects including:
The Grand National or horses
Crufts dog show or dogs
The Grand Prix or cars
The Boat Race, Oxford or Cambridge
The World Cup, team sports or football
The Tour de France or cycling
Two Minute Topics evaluation – CAW
Awards presentation – KD
There was no Best speech award as there were
only two speeches
Best Topic – TH
Best Evaluator – CAW – Two Minute Topics evaluation
General Evaluator – TH